#0072 - Marc Andreessen - Artificial Intelligence and Surveillance

Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's May 2026 interview with Marc Andreessen

Intro

 

• Coinbase shareholders: who owns the most COIN stock? | Capital.com

• NASDAQ: COIN Coinbase Global Inc Stock Ownership

• Investing in Flock Safety | Andreessen Horowitz 

• Andreessen Leads Funding Valuing Flock Safety at $7.5 Billion 

• Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion, doubling down on AI and defense startups | Reuters 

Main

 

• Richard Dawkins and AI: the lights are on, but nobody's home - The Skeptic 

• 1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study - Ars Technica 

• The AI bubble will pop. It's up to us to replace it responsibly | Mark Surman | The Guardian 

• AI chatbots give inaccurate medical advice says Oxford Uni study - BBC News 

• New study warns of risks in AI chatbots giving medical advice | Oxford University 

• Recovering memories: Could the Satanic Panic happen again? - The Skeptic 

• Stop referencing fake case citations, judges warned | Law Gazette 

• AI remains top reason for US job cuts for third straight month as employers axed 97,000 workers in May 

• Mothers say AI chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves - BBC News 

• Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself 

• Deaths linked to chatbots - Wikipedia 

• Data Centers and Water Consumption | Article | EESI 

• AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030, U.N. Report Warns 

• Musk predicts more AI capacity will be in orbit than on earth in 5 years, with SpaceX becoming a 'hyper-hyper' scaler | Fortune 

• Elon Musk predicts superhuman AI will be smarter than people next year 

• LinkedIn | Elon Musk predicts that by 2031, "digital intelligence will exceed the sum of all human intelligence" 

• Elon Musk Says In 5 Years We Won't Have Phones—Only AI That 'Anticipates' What You Want 

• Elon Musk claims AI will overtake humans 'in less than five years' | The Independent 

• Elon Musk's deleted message: Five years until 'dangerous' AI 

Undercard

 

• A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion 

• License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows 

• Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition to Ban Its Owner's Enemies - The New York Times 

• Flock's Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance | ACLU 

• SoundThinking - Wikipedia 

• Is Chicago crime out of control, as Trump claims? The data says no 

• Here are 10 cities with the highest murder rates 

 

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2501

 

Listen to our other shows:

• Cecil - Cognitive Dissonance and Citation Needed

• Marsh - Skeptics with a K and The Skeptic Podcast

 

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